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  • Airmen Hit the Streets to Prepare for Hurricane Evacuations

    Air National Guard Airmen recently trucked through Tampa traffic to ensure they were comfortable and experienced travelling as a team through busy city streets.Due to the prevalence of severe storms in Florida, and MacDill AFB's proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, the 125th Fighter Wing's, 290th Joint

  • NATO Secretary General visits the Florida Air National Guard

    The 125th Fighter Wing, Florida Air National Guard, was the first stop on a short tour of three U.S. military installations yesterday for NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg was greeted by Brig. Gen. James Eifert, Commander of the Florida Air National Guard, Col. Brian Simpler,

  • NGAGA: The Georgia Guard member's voice on Capitol Hill

    Service to its members is the number one goal of the National Guard Association of Georgia, according to the NGAGA website."Unlike other military organizations, NGAGA works purely for the Georgia Army and Air National Guard, its members, and families," said NGAGA president Col. John Verhage, 116th

  • Disabled Veterans Tour Base

    The 117th Air Refueling Wing hosted veterans from the Southeastern Blind Rehabilitation Center here on May 7.The veterans were briefed on mission operations, toured the KC-135R Stratotanker and visited several shops around the base.Master Sgt. Rodrick Taylor, the 99th Air Refueling Squadron Chief

  • Civil engineers deploy to renovate Romanian medical clinic

    Framed by the backdrop of the Black Sea shoreline, Oregon Air National Guardsmen from the 142nd Fighter Wing Civil Engineer Squadron traveled nearly halfway around the globe to renovate a medical facility here as part of the U.S. European Commands' Humanitarian Civic Assistance Program.The

  • 167th Airlift Wing bids farewell to its final C-5

    The last C-5A Galaxy aircraft assigned to the 167th Airlift Wing and the Air National Guard launched from the airfield here May 20, into its retirement at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, otherwise known as the boneyard.Piloted by a crew from

  • Chief takes charge of the enlisted professional military education center

    Chief Master Sgt. Edward L. Walden, Sr. became Commandant of the Paul H. Lankford Enlisted Professional Military Education Center in a ceremony here May 20 in Wilson Hall.Col. Jessica Meyeraan, commander of the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center, and Chief Master Sgt. James Hotaling, command

  • New Jersey Airmen welcome home World War II veterans

    U.S. Air Force Airmen from the New Jersey Air National Guard came together with members of the local community May 19 to welcome home approximately 80 World War II veterans.Members of the 177th Fighter Wing, who are in Florida for a deployment for training to work with Coast Guard Air Station

  • Student Flight changes better prepare trainees for basic training

    The 109th Airlift Wing Student Flight program recently saw some big changes, including more structure, more physical training and more guidance - all to better prepare trainees for their first step in becoming an Airman at Basic Military Training.At the behest of Chief Master Sgt. Amy Giaquinto,